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the initiative in labeling any whites holding blacks to standardsrnas “racists.”rnThe cultural split among blacks is between those who seerngutter language as “liberating” and those who privately call itrn”slave talk.” However, public debate is limited by the commandment,rn”Thou shalt not criticize a brother or sister in frontrnof them.” And the black nationalists who so delight...

tion of remedial classes at the institutions in question. Thernhardv souls among professors, administrators, or students whorndared stand up to the thugs were derided as “racists” or “sellouts”rnand often physically assaulted.rnThough the militants achieved onlv a portion of their demands,rnthey did get intellectually fraudulent, “autonomous”rnBlack Studies ]3rograms as political payoffs. The original plansrnfor courses on...

nuanced account of Freud is nothing ifrnnot critical, vet she sees the modern erarnas Freudian both explicitly and bv implication.rnShe also sees the more “open”rn’isions of William James and GertrudernStein as alternatives that were widelyrnaccessible to the modern mind. Butrnthese presences do not, to mv own mind,rnseem to have connected as decisively asrnshe claims with...

he lived in the same apartment buildingrnas Frank Costello and accepted mobrnprotection. Damon Runyon picked uprnhis gangster lingo from the originalrnsources—^Al Capone and Arnold Rothsteinrnbeing two of them. His stories, forrnall their colorful language, affirm thernvalues of the mobsters. The mob hadrnnothing to fear in New York from writersrn—quite the opposite, in fact.rnTwo particularly notable...

Hic killer is most often either a supremernetjotist wlio kills for personal gain or satisfaetion,rnor a vengeful Ahab whose angrrnrejeetion of the universal orderrnamounts to blasphemy. I’hus, in somern\as, the nister no’el, vvhieh so oftenrnntili/es stereotpe and struetural formularnalong with a reeurring protagonist forrnthe sake of a stable point of view, isrnsupremeK predietable. The mystery...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnMassachusettsrnby Eugene NariettrnOur Mr. BrooksrnHometown of John F, Kennedy, Brookline,rnMassaehusetts, blends small-scalerncharm with a shabby urbanity. Pluggedrnlike a weak rib into Boston’s west edge,rnBrooklinc is laced with picturesquerntrollevs and dotted with quaint buildings.rnIts citizenry is an odd mix ofrnrecent immigrants from Russia and thernCaribbean, college students, seniors, arntasteful dollop of minorities on welfare,rnand hip...

counselor? “We did talk to a lawyer,”rnGoddard told me. “And we were informedrnthat unless we could show thatrnthe kids had been harmed, we were toldrnwe couldn’t sue.” Although million-dollarrnsuits now are filed for falling off a toiletrnseat, the legal establishment seems tornfeel that no harm is done by counselingrnsix-year-olds about transsexualism. Asrnfor dismissal, Goddard states...

Preference” eanipaigners to the Thateherites,rnPowellites, and so-eallcd “Euroskepties”rnof flic presenf dav. Flir rightistsrnhaw neer liad much success in Britain,rnnot een in the 19>0’s, wlicn all of Europernexcept iMigland seemed full ofrnsame-shirted cohorts doing calisthenics.rnThe British do not much like excitablernideologues, but like their statesmenrn”w eatliercd and polished, like old wood,”rnas Andre Maurois noted in his...

VITAL SIGNSrnEDUCATIONrnHumanities and thernCutting Edgernbv San ford PinskeirnThere are whole afternoons when arnpart of me wishes I had paid morernattention in Bio 100 because then 1rnmight have ended up in cancer research,rnwhere being on the cutting edge makesrnsense. But for better or worse, 1 settledrnon literary criticism, a “discipline” thatrnwears inverted commas around its neckrnlike...

provide more models for our ongoing effortsrnat modeling. But whether the subjectrnis the claims of Self as pitted againstrnthe requirements of Society, the folly ofrnaulting ambition, or the tensions thatrnset sons against fathers, one generationrnagainst another, we have yet to improvernon the question Socrates posed so longrnago—namely, how should a good personrnlive? Finding the answer...

files empty, but, as yet, this is no concern.rnAs is indicated bv the mere handfulrnof pink slips pinned to a large bulletinrnlioard, representatives from most of thernuniversities that will be conducting interviewsrnhave vet to arrive. T’he’ will be doingrnso later tonight or tomorrow. UnlikernEmmitt, I have no prearranged interviews.rnBut since I was visiting Englandrnduring the...

W’aricn completed his doctoral workrnat Cambridge a couple of years beforernmc and rccentK’ published an expandedrnersion of his tlicsis with Oxford UniversitrnPress, lie is spending the currentrncar as a research fellow at some Harvardrninstitute, living with his wife and childrenrnin Somcrville. It will be good to seernthem.rnTheir apartment is small, ugly, ovcrlicated,rnand expensive. Warren, Milly,rnand...

Where it was poor, people were starvingrnor killing one another for bread. Wherernit was rich, it squandered its substancernon cars and houses and calories—allrnunneeded—urged on by what he saw asrndishonest advertisers using the latest scientificrnbrainwashing techniques. Andrnwhile the well-to-do spent their eveningsrnand weekends mindlessly watching television,rnor pursuing an elusive security,rnwhether of finance or of love,...

Ihc delicacy of Lasch’s characterizationrnof Karp’s attitude was, I fancy, part-rn1 because he was saying it in personrn(Lascli was always ceremonious and gentlernin person), but also because he wasrnattributing the sentiment to Abe Karp,rnand \ ould not have wanted to attribute arnrealh’ extreme opinion to another person.rnHad I .asch put this idea into one ofrnhis...

est sweat in that tennis court.rnFirst and foremost the learned Canonrnwas blessed with a prodigious appetite.rnI laving said grace in Hall, under the gazernof Holbein’s Henry VIII, his wave of thernhands would have adroitly secretedrnseveral spoils of the table into variousrnpockets, for consumption in liis roomsrnlater. To the college’s buffet lunches hernbrought with him a...

were punished, the man a little morernharshh’.rn'[‘he article in the Post also reportedrnthat 38 pregnancies have occurred on thernEisenhower since leaving our shores arn ear ago. I low man- of these babies havernthe same father we do not know, but accordingrnto the Center for Military Readiness,rnwhich keeps track of these gestatingrnproblems, the Nav^ evacuated five...

predilection for sodomy with heroism:rnveteran cokimnist Mike Royko. Whilernthe Tribune was genuflecting before thernApril 1993 “Gay Rights March on Washington,”rnRoyko pooh-poohed it as thernfatuous nonsense that it was. And whilernthe Tribune was haranguing PresidentrnBill Clinton to repeal the ban on openrnhomosexuals in the military, Royko—rnone of the few remaining Tribune writersrnwho actually served in the...

The Hundredth Meridianrnbv Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnCircuit RiderrnA town witliout a saloon is like a womanrnwithout a heart. I made Blanding, Utah,rnbefore sundown, checked into the BestrnWestern Motel, and rang up the frontrndesk from m room. “Is the Elk RidgernRestaurant within walking distance fromrnhere?” “It’s just half a block away.” “Dornthev have a liquor license?” ‘”Vo...

New Mexico, many of whom migratedrnfrom the Lower South to Texas after thernfederal troops and carpetbaggers expropriatedrntliem, and later from Texas intornNew Mexico Territory where they set uprnin the cattle-ranching business. Theyrnwere largely of Celtic stock, and some ofrnthem, like Jim’s ancestors, had an admixturernof Cherokee and Choctaw blood;rnas ex-Confederates, they compoundedrnCeltic rambunctiousness and dislike...

CH^rn-*pys?|?””rnBACK ISSUES of CHRONICLESrnAK( KR LETERACY: EDUCATION IN POSTCIV[l,r/F.r)rnAMERICA—September 1994—John Lukacs on civilization vs.rnculture, Michael Gorman on technovandals and the future ofrnlibraries, Theodore Pappas on the nagging problem of plagiarism,rnand Stephen A. Erickson on the politics of education.rnPlus Thomas Fleming on the education of liberals,rnand John Dombrowski on politically incorrect research.rn’i’tlRNING RiCHl-S INTO WRONGS: ‘...

^)MfnWN)f’rnINCLUDING ESSAYS BY.rn’ PETKR BRIMFIXJWrn(Forbes Magazine)rn• Ai.i,AN CARLSONrn(The Rockford Institute)rn’ JEAN BETIIKE EI.SHTAINrn(University of ChicagornDivinity School)rn• RICHARD ESTRAI>rn(Dallas Morning News)rnTHOMAS FLEMINGrn(Chronicles Magazine)rnSAMUEL FRANCISrn(Nationally SyndicatedrnColumnist)rnPAUL GoirFRiEDrn(Elizabethtown College)rnGARRETT HARDINrn(Professor Emeritus ofrnHuman Ecologv)rnHANS-HERMANN HOITErn(University of Nevada,rnLas Vegas)rnDONALD L. I IUDDI ,F,rn(Rice University)rnE. CHRISTIAN KOPFFrn(University ofrnColorado inrnBoulder)rnIMMIGRATIONrn* AND THE *rnAMERICAN IDENTITYrnSELECTIONS FROMrnChronicles: A Magazine of American Culture,rn1985-1995rn’ RICHARD D....

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnEDITORIAL ASSISTANTrnMichael WashburnrnARE DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCON’I’RIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.]. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Jacob Neusner,rnJohn Shelton Reed, Momcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL. SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnPRODUCTION SECRETARYrnAnita CandyrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and .Advertising Offices:rn934 North Main Street, Rockford,...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrn” O P E N T H E FILESI” demands Nationrnof Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.rnAnd right fully so. The files in questionrninvoKe the federal government’s attemptrnto entrap Qubilah Shabazz into arneonspiracy to assassinate Farrakhan, whornhas long been accused of involvement inrnthe 1965 murder of Shabazz’s father,rnMalcolm X.rnFederal prosecutors suddenly agreedrnin May to drop the...

B O B D O L E is the last of the Taft Repubhcans,rnaceording to Murray Kemptonrn—if only it were so! Isolationistsrn(that is, Middle Americans who do notrnwant our sons or brothers sent to die orrnkill on foreign sands) eherish Dole’s remarkrnin his 1976 vice presidential debaternwith the dreary Mondale: “I figured uprnthe other day,...

poor population today.” The new po-rnertv threshold would range betweenrn$15,700 and $15,900, “plus a litdc more”rnthrown in for other “needs.”rnAt least three ideas in the report arerngood ones: counting welfare benefits asrnincome; subtracting taxes from incomernin calculating the poverty threshold; andrntaking into account the city or town inrnwhich a poor person lives. After all. FoodrnStamps...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnRoads to RevolutionrnFor at least a month after the mass murderrnin Oklahoma Cit}’, the official sentinelsrnof the federal leviathan threwrnthemselves into a state of panic that wasrnprobably unprecedented in the country’srnhistory. It remains unclear how much ofrnthe hysteria and paranoia they injectedrninto their own minds they actually believedrnand how much they...

fabricated compassion for minorities,rnand tcarv pseudoscicnce about endangeredrninsects.rnVcw residents of Mcadville seem to bernmembers of militia groups, and few expressrnmuch svmpathv for or interest inrntliem. One local, o\ ner of a small manufacturingrncompan, told the reporter, “Irndon’t want anything to do with them,rnbut I think I understand their attitude. Ifrn()u ran a small business, vou’d...

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City will turn out to be his Gulf War, a badly timed campaignrnstunt that tugged at the heartstrings until thev broke. When allrnthe ellow ribbons have been bleached by the summer sun, BillrnClinton w ill still be Bill Clinton, and the onlv chance he has forrna second term lies in the hands of the Republican...

that cuts a little too close to the bone.rnI do not know what actually happened in Oklahoma City,rnand, in one sense, I hardly care. People die every day. I am sorryrnfor it, but they do. Sometimes hundreds of Americans die inrna plane crash. They are all strangers, and I eat a hearty dinnerrnand go to...

car thief who despised both sets of Eastern liberals—the draftcardrnburners who betrayed their country in wartime and thernpatriotic stockjobbers who would sell it to the highest bidders.rnResistance to the regime is always strongest in the hinterlands,rnbecause the people of the cities are either cowed orrncoopted by their education and their habits of dependence. Arnfew weeks...

Regionalism arises when a provincialism like the cowboy culturernbecomes conservatively self-conscious, when a regionallyrnbased “way of life” (or the remnants thereof) is threatened byrnthe forces of modcrnitv and efforts are made to preserve it orrnadapt it to such changes. Regionalism has especially attractedrnthe interest of artists and intellectuals, who idealize andrnmthologi/.e a regional culture that...

American Farmer (not published until 1782), he celebrated thernregional differentiation that since Winthrop’s day had manifestedrnitself in the English colonies. In the course of severalrngenerations, he noted, European immigrants had become “notrnonly Americans in general, but either Pennsylvanians, Virginians,rnor provincials under some other name. Whoever traversesrnthe continent must easily observe those strong differences,rnwhich will grow...

and dependency much like their Southern counterparts, beholdenrnto implement dealers and mortgage companies, hostagernto railroad monopolies. The grassroots uprising known as thernPopulist revolt pitted (in their minds) the debtor West andrnSouth against the moneychangers of the creditor East. From arnlarger perspective. Populism represented the last historical occasionrnin which agrarian republican values animated a significantrnportion of...

The FrontierrnAmerica’s Broken Templaternby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnWhile visiting out-of-state friends in Jackson last summer,rnI was involved in a conversation with a just-marriedrncouple who had moved to Wyoming two months beforernfrom Los Angeles for the now-familiar purpose of escapingrndrive-by shootings, berserk retired football stars, and the multifariousrnSons and Daughters of Emma Lazarus. In the course ofrnour...

has wandered off into the postindustrial age, in the rural MountainrnWest the preindustrial era survives. The world that Westernrnmen, women, and children experience and confront on arndail’ basis is not the manmade artificial one that has interposedrnitself between man and nature throughout most of the rest ofrnthe so-called developed (meaning deconstructed) world, butrnthe natural worid...

Northwest, and that modern historians call the Old Northwest.rnThe first I have mentioned already: space. Not only does spacernconfer an incalculable psychic freedom for all except agoraphobics,rnthere is simply no substitute for living where the governmentrn—any government—can’t find you. The second is thatrnthe Western states, from the Mississippi River to the PacificrnOcean, were territories first—not...

farmers, ranchers—the rich would have no means to dominaternus… . Our dream is to escape the hierarchical order; neither tornserve nor to rule.” And so the preservation of what remains ofrnthe frontier and even, if we are lucky, the recovery of some ofrnwhat has been lost, demands the reinvigoration and spread ofrnclassic Western populist attitudes...

olina, and became active in his state’s dangerous politics, killingrnone man and wounding another in duels. He went bankruptrnand moved to Texas, but his fellow Texans sent him back east tornWashington as a senator, where he worked to reopen the slaverntrade and to derail any compromises that might prevent secessionrn(which he ardently desired). He became...

books. In 1957 Proctor and Gamble bought the whole shebang.rnWhen he died, “Recommended by Duncan Hines”rnsigns (leased from his company) adorned 10,000 businesses.rnDon’t worry: we’ll include the South’s great writers and musicians,rnits notorious politicians and gallant soldiers, the famousrncivil rights leaders and Sunbelt tycoons. But these folks will bernin there, too. And anyway it’s a...

OPINIONSrnLegal Insanityrnby William J. Quirkrn”Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law,rnI expect little from old judges.”rn—^Thomas JeffersonrnJudicial Power andrnAmerican Characterrnby Robert F. NagelrnNew York: Oxford University Press;rn188 pp., $29.95rnAsociety governed by the judiciary—rnrather than by the will of the majorityrn—displays odd characteristics. OnrnJuly 29, 1994, a seven-year-old girl inrnHamilton Township, New Jersey,...

social agenda; the courts have become arnkind of elevated bureaucracy, busilyrncrafting formulae that will bend the nation’srnaffairs toward various visions, dignifiedrnby constitutional status.”rnThe “various visions” come from whatrnPaul Hollander calls the “adversarial culture,”rnan intellectual elite which believesrnthe “prevailing social order is deeplyrnflawed, unjust, corrupt and irrational,rncalculated to constrain or reduce humanrnsatisfactions.” The Court styles itself...